New Search Engine Makes it Easy to Plant Trees - For Free

BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Carbonfund.org Foundation is proud to announce the launch of Ecosearch.co, a free online search service that enables anyone to help protect the environment simply through their everyday web searches. Ecosearch.co generates revenue from Google, which it uses to support international reforestation projects.

One year from now, Carbonfund.org hopes to have planted three million trees through Ecosearch.co, or about 8,000 trees every day. To celebrate the launch and jumpstart their goal, Carbonfund.org will plant two trees for the first 250,000 new users who set Ecosearch.co as their computer's default search engine and Like it on Facebook (www.facebook.com/ecosearch.co).

"You can set Ecosearch.co as your default search engine and forget about it because you're receiving the same great results," said Eric Carlson, president of Carbonfund.org. "It's one easy, free way to make a difference that anyone can do today."

Ecosearch.co chose to support reforestation projects because of the scope of their environmental and social benefits. Tree planting absorbs carbon dioxide to reduce climate change, improves air quality, preserves biodiversity, controls flooding by minimizing runoff and topsoil loss, provides habitat and nutrition for wildlife, and creates jobs managing tree nurseries, planting and care.

"The devastation caused by mass deforestation is one of the most critical environmental problems facing our world and people today," added Carlson. "We must develop simple and effective ways to reduce deforestation and ultimately turn the tide by reforesting crucial land around the world. Ecosearch.co aims to do just that."

Funds earned from ad revenue support projects like the Haiti Reforestation Initiative, which plants trees throughout Haiti, particularly the municipalities most impacted by the devastating earthquake in 2010. There local organizations work with communities to bring fresh life to the region via trees and jobs.

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